Topics of interest

• Robot skins and tactile sensors that enable real-time feedback of physical contact

  • Novel sensors and sensor fabrication methods that detect contact on the robot's body

  • Data processing systems for contact detection, analysis, and evaluation 

  • Software infrastructure for contact-rich feedback

• Control and learning methods for large-scale and multi-contact interactions

  • Contact and friction models for robotics

  • Evaluation of physical and computational aspects of solvers and models

  • Non-point contact in long horizon tasks

  • Complementarity constraints for contact modeling

  • Integration of contact data into machine learning models

  • Methods for collecting large-scale contact interaction data

  • Integration of contact models into simulation and learning methods

• Integration of contact sensing hardware and software to enable robots to solve challenging contact-rich tasks

  • Whole-body contact

  • Human-robot interaction

  • Industrial applications of contact-rich tasks

  • Manipulation in constrained and cluttered environments requiring tactile feedback